Navarre uses Expedited Type 1 petition on Stark County Farm land

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Nov 28, 2007 at 12:01 AMNov 28, 2007 at 1:07 AM

Consider it the trump card of annexation petitions. The Expedited Type 1 petition is fast; no public hearings are required. It’s nearly guaranteed because Stark County commissioners can’t reject it when a municipality and township sign a joint annexation agreement and submit it properly. And it supersedes all other pending annexations on the property.

Kelli Young

Consider it the trump card of annexation petitions.
The Expedited Type 1 petition is fast; no public hearings are required. It’s nearly guaranteed because Stark County commissioners can’t reject it when a municipality and township sign a joint annexation agreement and submit it properly. And it supersedes all other pending annexations on the property.
Canton City used the expedited approach in December to annex Stark Ceramics and The Quarry Golf Course over the objections of East Canton, which filed its annexation petition for some of the same property first.
Navarre played its trump card Tuesday. The village presented commissioners with an Expedited Type 1 petition and its agreement with Perry Township trustees to annex roughly 165 acres of the Stark County Farm -- the same property Massillon wanted to annex because of its economic-development potential.
But commissioners, under state law, had no choice but to approve Navarre’s petition Tuesday. The village’s request also included four acres owned by Walter M. and Mary A. Houston west of the county farm.
The commissioner’s approval means Massillon’s annexation request will be reduced dramatically during a public hearing before commissioners Thursday.
Rather than the nearly 260 acres Massillon wanted to annex, the county farm property will be eliminated from the request and commissioners will consider only the 71 acres that is the former Fleming Foods plant where Shearer’s Foods plans to expand its operations.
Thursday’s meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Perry Township administration office at 3111 Hilton St. NW.
Reach Canton Repository writer Kelli Young at (330) 580-8339 or kelli.young@cantonrep.com.